A Labor volunteer was marched off the Secret Harbour pre-poll and told not to come back after a female One Nation volunteer said he told her "you English are disgusting, go back to England because you're on stolen land", then looked her up and down and asked if she'd "ever been on a treadmill". Even Labor candidate Georgia Tree was reportedly apologetic when the woman spoke to her.
The account was posted on Sunday by the Politi-CALL Facebook page, which says it phoned the volunteer, took the story from her directly and got her consent before going public. The man, described in the video as a 21 year old Labor volunteer, denied saying any of it when he was confronted at the booth. The account says two witnesses backed the woman's version, and organisers acted immediately. He was walked off the site and told not to return.
It opens a final week for Labor in a seat it holds by an 11.5% margin. While its volunteer was being escorted off the booth, Anthony Albanese was arriving in Perth for what a local page says is a week of private fundraising, including a $10,000 a head dinner, with zero events announced for Secret Harbour itself before Saturday's 29 August vote.
Vicious Port Kennedy booth attack: Labor volunteer accused of turning on a One Nation volunteer
Early voting for the by-election has been running at Port Kennedy since 17 August, and according to the Politi-CALL account the same man had spent earlier days needling One Nation volunteers, telling them they "smelt" and calling them "uneducated bigots".
On Saturday, the video says, he turned on one woman directly: "you English are disgusting, go back to England because you're on stolen land".
"But you are here," she replied, according to the account. "Yeah, and I'm ashamed," he said.
The woman tried to keep the conversation going and asked whether he'd ever travelled anywhere in the world. His answer, the account says, was to look her up and down and ask, "have you ever been on a treadmill".
Politi-CALL called it a personal comment "meant to cut and meant to hurt", and said the woman was left "shocked and floored". Other volunteers called over senior One Nation people, the man denied the exchange on the spot, and he was removed from the pre-poll and told he wasn't welcome back.
One News hasn't named the man, and he hasn't spoken publicly. His denial stands on the record next to the explosive allegation.
Georgia Tree apologetic over booth abuse as Labor faces rampant hypocrisy claims
The volunteer then approached Tree directly at the booth, the video says, and the Labor candidate "empathised with her situation and was apologetic". That detail comes from the video alone, so it stands as the volunteer's account rather than an official Labor statement.
Politi-CALL launched a sharper attack on Labor's propaganda. She said a post had apparently gone up on a WA Labor page the same week mocking One Nation's women's rights signage, ridiculing the idea that One Nation would stand up for women. Pushing that line while your own booth worker stands accused of body shaming and abusing a woman is, in her words, "just so hypocritical". She applied the reversal test as well: if a One Nation man spoke to a Labor woman that way, "we'd never hear the end of it".
PM Albanese dodges Secret Harbour voters to hit top secret $10,000 cash dinners
While the booths were being tidied up, the Prime Minister's week was mapped out by the Perth page The Last Place on Earth, which said on Sunday that Albanese was arriving for a week of secretive private fundraising events. That included a $10,000 a head dinner that night and another on Tuesday "that we do know about", with the rest described as "all very hush hush top secret".
"I've got some questions I'd like to ask the PM about political access, and who can afford it," the page declared, appealing to followers for venue tip offs.
One Nation candidate Luke Herdegen already challenged Albanese to spend that time in Secret Harbour itself, while independent Brett Murrell questioned overnight whether the Prime Minister will bother campaigning for Tree at all. As of Monday morning, there was no public Albanese event anywhere in the electorate.
The page got its answer anyway. In a follow up video posted this morning, The Last Place on Earth filmed Albanese leaving a mansion on what it calls Millionaire's Row, minutes after its reporter rang the doorbell to ask what was going on inside. "I've got 10,000 bucks in my pocket, is there any chance I could get a word?" he called as the Prime Minister left. He didn't get one.
Filmed leaving the same lavish dinner was Aaron Morey, chief executive of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, the state's peak mining lobby. Attending a private fundraiser is no offence and nobody filmed leaving is accused of any wrongdoing. The page's charge is about raw political access: Albanese, it says, came to Millionaire's Row straight from the airport, completely ignoring Secret Harbour.
The secrecy mirrors his last fundraising scandal. In July, Albanese defended a lavish dinner at a $40 million Point Piper mansion hosted by the son of a billionaire facing tax office deception allegations. That event prompted Nationals senator Matt Canavan to demand Labor "just give back the money". Labor's dismissive defence, delivered by Tanya Plibersek, was that the Prime Minister "goes to dinners every night of the week just about".
Candidate Georgia Tree refuses to clear up active Woodside gas employment claims
The same video targeted Labor candidate Tree directly, asserting she is "literally still a Woodside employee while she's running for parliament" and slamming the party leadership: "it was the Labor government's decision to select her as their candidate".
Published reporting backs the core of it. Tree worked as an adviser to federal Resources Minister Madeleine King, joined Woodside in 2026, and actually lives outside the electorate. WA energy outlet Boiling Cold described her mid campaign as the employee Labor is fighting to get into parliament, and reported that Woodside itself tipped $12,100 into WA Labor's coffers during the campaign, on the WA Electoral Commission's own disclosures. If any of that is wrong, Tree could crush it in a single sentence. She hasn't. She actively dodged the question when it was put to her on the first day of early voting.
If true, Secret Harbour voters would be electing an active Woodside staffer to State Parliament as the government's handpicked choice. That is a massive conflict of interest a candidate must clear up before polling day, and she has just 5 days left to do it.
Labor banks $650,000 in frantic bid to stop Luke Herdegen taking Secret Harbour
None of this is landing in a safe corner for Labor. Paul Papalia held Secret Harbour by 11.5%, but he was hit with a 19.8% swing at the 2025 election, One Nation's 8th best lower house result in the state, before his resignation triggered this by-election. Premier Roger Cook has already conceded the contest will be "tough for Labor", and The West Australian's editorial has gone further, arguing Herdegen could realistically take the seat.
Labor's money says the same thing. Disclosures reported during the campaign put Labor's donation haul above $650,000 against One Nation's $48,000, with $300,000 going on a Medicare scare campaign that One News pulled apart for its factual errors, including the line that a party founded in 1997 had "always" been against a scheme legislated in 1983. Tree's own pitch has leaned on free TAFE and a promise to deliver Karnup station, a project her own party first pledged 13 years ago.
The rest of the field is fighting over a record ballot. Sixteen candidates are standing, the most ever at a WA by-election. Liberal leader Basil Zempilas has been at Port Kennedy campaigning for Ryan Robertson, and independent Teresa van Lieshout says about 25 of her signs have been stolen or destroyed.
Polling day is Saturday 29 August, 8am to 6pm. One News is covering the final week on the Secret Harbour live feed, with every candidate's movements and the count on Saturday night.
